Cash flow · The cash forecast · Element

The inflows

Expected receipts by week, timed by when money actually arrives.

The part

What it is

Timing should be based on when customers actually pay rather than on terms, which are the starting position rather than the outcome.

Large individual receipts should be listed separately, because their timing dominates the forecast and their risk is specific.

The smallest level

The attributes it carries

Each attribute is one of the framework’s shared types. What a date is, and how it is written, is defined once for the whole model — the note here says what it means in this particular place.